The Xbox 360 version of Borderlands to support Xbox One backward compatibility

Fans of the Borderlands game franchise will be happy to learn that the first game in Gearbox Software's first-person shooter-RPG series, made for the Xbox 360, will be able to be played on Microsoft's Xbox One console. The game will be available via the console's upcoming backward compatibility feature.

People who are signed up for the Xbox One Preview Program and have a copy of Borderlands for the Xbox 360 can go ahead and play the game now, along with any previously-saved files, game add-ons and achievements. The other two games in the series, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, are already available as a direct Xbox One port in the recent game bundle Borderlands: The Handsome Collection.

Currently, Xbox preview members can play 25 Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One with the backward compatibility feature. Microsoft says that over 100 Xbox 360 games will support the feature when the Xbox One officially launches backward compatibility support sometime in November.

More of a general backwards compatibility question, I still have my 360 hard drive. How does the One recognize these files for game saves? Is it only for things that had been saved to the cloud on 360?

I'd imagine so as the x1 downloads and install the 360 version when you put in a supported disk. But you still need the disk to play. Best get ahold of a 360 and upload the saves. However you could try it and see what happens?
My guess it would ask to format the HDD as you can only plug it in as a usb hdd.

That's actually pretty great of them to do this with their game. It would've been so easy to say, "We aren't going to let borderlands be backwards compatible, because we want people to buy The Handsome Collection."

I just want them to release Halo Reach before Halo 5 comes out so I can do a weekend bender of Reach, CE, 2, ODST, 3, 4 and Spartan Ops without having to dust off the old 360 (even if it is the limited ed Halo 4 console)